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Neighborhood Quality, Environmental Hazards, Personality Traits, and Resident Actions
Author(s) -
Greenberg Michael,
Schneider Dona
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
risk analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1539-6924
pISSN - 0272-4332
DOI - 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1997.tb00856.x
Subject(s) - optimism , pessimism , personality , quality (philosophy) , big five personality traits , psychology , perception , environmental quality , environmental health , social psychology , political science , medicine , philosophy , epistemology , neuroscience , law
A survey of 798 New Jersey residents examined relationships among residents’ neighborhood activities, perceptions of neighborhood quality, trust of experts, support for rebuilding cities and equal rights, and degree of optimism. Neighborhood activities increased with lack of trust and optimism. These personality characteristic measures were folded into multidimensional constructs that included local environmental hazards, respondents’ ratings of their previous neighborhoods, and some demographic variables. Pessimism and values that support equal rights and rebuilding cities were weakly associated with poor quality neighborhood ratings.